Renew Office365 Subscription

A PC installed with Office365  is required to have internet connection to renew the office subscription. 

If the PC is offline or not connected to internet the office might get deactivated and office starts prompts for reactivation. Don't worry, you can still use office products during the grace period with reduced functionality.

Here is the quick procedure to reactivate your office product.

Open CMD as administrator Browse to the office folder using the following commands:

cd /d "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15"

Type the following command to see the product activation key status

CSCRIPT OSPP.VBS /DSTATUS

If the activated key was something like “ABDC1”, then you can remove the currently downloaded keys with this command:

CSCRIPT OSPP.VBS /UNPKEY:ABCD1

When the user logs in again, the subscription login will download and activate the user account with new Pkey data, hopefully resolving the error.

You can re-run the dstatus command to confirm activation has now been successfully, the status should now look like this:

SKU ID: 149dbce7-a48e-44db-8364-a53386cd4580

LICENSE NAME: Office 15, OfficeO365ProPlusR_Subscription1 edition

LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 15, TIMEBASED_SUB channel

LICENSE STATUS:  ---LICENSED---

ERROR CODE: 0x4004FC04 (for information purposes only as the status is licensed)

ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the application

is running within the timebased validity period.

REMAINING GRACE: 31 days  (46016 minute(s) before expiring)

Last 5 characters of installed product key: HT7KC

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